[SaaS Club] Bootstrapping a side-project to $1M+ ARR

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🎧 Podcast

We just published the latest episode of The SaaS Podcast:

306: Carrd: Bootstrapping a SaaS Side-Project to $1M+ ARR

After building and selling website templates and themes for several years, AJ created a website builder for really simple one-page websites.

He didn't have high expectations for the software and thought of it more like a vanity project' that hopefully would help pay for his lattes.

But the product turned out to be a lot more popular than AJ had expected.

Even though it was a freemium product with a $19/year paid plan, he managed to bootstrap to around $30K in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) by 2020.

I interviewed him that year and you can listen to that interview on episode 225.

In the last 18 months, his business has grown to over $1 million in ARR, he's raised $2M in funding, and is hosting over 4 million websites!

So I invited him back to update us on his story.

In this interview, we pick up on where we left on in episode 225. We talk about how he's been able to grow to 7-figures with a team of just 2 people.

It's a great interview and I hope you enjoy it.

Listen on the web, your favorite podcast app, or in the private community.

-- Omer

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[SaaS Club] Bootstrapping a side-project to $1M+ ARR

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